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That’s the night the D-Gang was born and Dawood swore revenge. That’s the night Dawood Ibrahim took over as the leader of the gang. That’s the night that changed Bombay’s underworld forever. Sabir was killed at the Prabhadevi Petrol Pump outside Siddhivinayak temple in the dead of the night. On 12th February, 1981, Manya, along with the Pathans, planned, orchestrated and executed the most infamous murder in the history of Bombay’s underworld. Brutal and electrifying, it is one of those theatre-going experiences that has a plot, is packaged well and has content drama, action, dialogue, songs, performances. The top gang of the city had come asking him for help and in doing so he would eliminate the other, and therefore become, as he said, “ Shootout at Wadala has been getting a great reception so far, and even top critic Taran Adarsh admits: On the whole, Shootout at Wadala is a firebrand, paisa vasool entertainer. For Manya, it was a clear shot to success. Manya was known for his dare devilry and strategic planning. The Pathans, taking advantage of the peace that had been brokered by Haji Mastan, contacted Manya Surve to eliminate Sabir. The first educated Hindu gangster whose reign of terror in the area of Agar Bazaar, Dadar, still sends a shiver down the spines of people I met who knew him. Thus was born the legend of Manya Surve, the first desperado in the Bombay gangland.
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Enraged, he decided to form his own gang. But till then the gangs were communal and being a Hindu, he was denied acceptance. After nine long years he escaped and returned to Bombay with the sole intention of getting into the underworld. Somewhere in the middle of this, a young man, Manohar Surve, fresh out of Kirti College got implicated in a murder that he did not commit and was sentenced to life in Yerwada Jail. Things got so out of hand that Haji Mastan, who was respected by both sides, was forced to intervene and call for a truce with both the sides swearing on the Holy Quran to stop the bloodshed. Blood was on the streets and law and order became a joke. Soon the war between the Pathans and Kaskar brothers escalated into the worst gang war that the city had ever seen. At their wits end in controlling the spiraling crime in the city, the cops decided to end the Pathan menace by backing Sabir and Dawood against them. His name was Sabir Ibrahim Kaskar, and standing by his side was his younger brother and second-in-command, Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. In the 70s, one young man stood up to challenge their supremacy and to end their reign of terror with terror. Often, retrieving their funds required muscle, which soon changed into ‘dadagiri’ or roughing up people violently. These men from Afghanistan had come to the city as money- lenders. A story that gave birth to my forthcoming film,įrom the 1950s to the 70s, Bombay was ruled by one particular gang who did not believe in the law of the land - The Pathans. So when was it that the cops decided to kill and not catch? What was that single incident, which was the catalyst? Who was the first victim? Who was the first perpetrator? Who created the concept of encounter killings and why? Who was the mastermind? I set out to look for answers to these questions, and in doing so, stumbled upon a story more shocking than I’d imagined.